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by bboreham 8y ago
How much of the credit card debt is eventually written off as bad debt?
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by bboreham 8y ago
You’re basically describing Source{d} https://www.sourced.tech
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by bboreham 9y ago
The sibling site to ask for software recommendations is https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com
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by bboreham 9y ago
Fizz buzz!
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by bboreham 9y ago
They don’t stop at floors: you have to time it right and step in or out fast enough to avoid falling too far or getting crushed. My mother’s workplace had one when I was about seven, and I was terrified even to think about it.
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by bboreham 9y ago
This kind of analysis is awesome. In a past job I might have deployed Aerospike, then eventually realised it sometimes lost my data. But that would be years later, after much midnight oil had been burned.
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by bboreham 9y ago
> Elon Musk ... giant subterranean launch tube Hyperloop?
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by bboreham 9y ago
“Y Combinator”, which is the name of the company that runs this website.
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by bboreham 9y ago
HN job postings, at least those on the first of the month, are open to anyone, not just YC companies.
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by bboreham 9y ago
Investment banking is not just advice. They also finance deals (i.e. come up with a few billion to make it happen) and execute - buy all the outstanding shares, or sell new ones in your IPO. And since those kinds of deals don’t come along e
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by bboreham 9y ago
Investment banks also do huge volumes of transactional business - dealing in shares, bonds, fx and derivatives of those. And all of those need hundreds of risk reports either for management or regulators. The deal-makers can get by with a s
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by bboreham 9y ago
Interactive tutorials from katacoda: https://www.katacoda.com/courses/kubernetes
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by bboreham 9y ago
EKS isn't generally available
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by bboreham 9y ago
Which feature? If you want a standalone installation of Kubernetes on a Mac try minikube. https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/minikube/
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by bboreham 9y ago
Officially, both Swarm and Kubernetes are valued features of Docker. Swarm was always much simpler to get started with, so some people will prefer it. But it's clear to me which one won.
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by bboreham 9y ago
The comparison is with an environment where the mouse, windowing and Ethernet were created. Billions poured into AI have produced some interesting tricks but little that changed the entire world of computing in the way those things have.
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by bboreham 9y ago
Small correction: Docker containers can run any number of processes. For example the standard apache container runs five.
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by bboreham 9y ago
"Docker for Windows" runs Linux containers in a Linux VM, with a thin Windows CLI and quite a nice install screen. It required no special help from Microsoft. The product that runs Docker containers natively is called "Window
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by bboreham 9y ago
If the requirement is for persistence, i.e. no data loss if the queue process dies, then Redis won't fit. EDIT: TIL Redis has the option to turn on fsync-to-disk on every write. Probably not what people are thinking of when they sugges
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by bboreham 9y ago
I'm not involved in the project, but you do this if you want the same robustness as an rdbms, e.g. if a client gets an acknowledgement back from the queue then the data is definitely captured and won't be lost if the queue process
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by bboreham 9y ago
The spreadsheet engine was a port of the DOS version, which by that time was written in C. The GUI ran as a separate process and communicated with the engine via a character protocol into a bastardised "terminal driver". This fabu
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by bboreham 9y ago
They bet on OS/2, and had a solid version for that around 1988. But nobody wanted it. Their solution was to go multi-platform, with an all-singing cross-platform super-product that would run everywhere. Except it didn't actually r
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by bboreham 9y ago
Ford didn't start Jaguar or Land Rover; it bought them in 1990 and 2000 respectively. And sold both to Tata Motors in 2008.
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by bboreham 9y ago
Whatever works, as much and as fast as you can afford. The kdb disk game is more about serial transfer rates and quantity.
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by bboreham 9y ago
I wonder if the 2020s column store would outperform kdb, which was written in the 1990s with a UI from the 1950s.
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by bboreham 9y ago
If I understand you correctly, that would also require a continuous stream of new OS images with all the latest fixes.
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by bboreham 9y ago
TransferWise reserve the right to cancel out transaction if the market moved too far. I think you're right they would eat a fairly big loss to avoid the bad press this would generate, but there is ultimately a limit. It bugs me this as
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by bboreham 9y ago
FWIW shared phone lines and long waits were standard in the UK too, prior to ~1980. I believe a combination of digital exchanges coming in and the privatisation of British Telecom fixed it.
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by bboreham 9y ago
Like Alexa, but cuddly.
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by bboreham 9y ago
No. No, no, no, no, no. The price you can sell an asset for is whatever someone is willing to pay, on that day. If sentiment turns and everyone is selling bitcoin, the price will most definitely not be going up.

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